@John D. and that's why you are not the GM either. How many teams in the NL would play Hanley at short today to get his bat in the lineup? Easily most of them. As long as his WAR is good, let him play!!

“He’s really close,” Mattingly said. “We’ve had zero setbacks. He’s feeling really good and has been able to do more and more. You don’t really have to worry about him going out and throwing a rehab game. It just gets to the point if there’s no pain and he’s ready to let it go, he can get off the mound and let it go.”

Mattingly also said Josh Beckett (hip impingement) threw Saturday, kind of. He said it was from a sitting position. If Beckett elects to have surgery, his season – if not career – would be over.

“The fact that he’s trying to throw tells you he’s trying to get himself ready in some way, shape or form,” Mattingly said.

There were 26 pitchers in baseball's 300-save club before Wednesday, an elite group headed by a right-hander who had the game's most devastating cut fastball (Mariano Rivera), another who had one of baseball's best changeups (Trevor Hoffman), and a left-hander who threw 98 mph (Billy Wagner).

A 5-2 win over Minnesota on Wednesday night proved costly for the Angels, who lost David Freese to a fractured right index finger, an injury that will sideline the third baseman for several weeks, and center fielder Daniel Robertson to right shoulder stiffness, an injury that is not serious.